Theater and Dance
A dramatic account of the death of Jean Charles de Menezes
Stockwell, by Kieron Barry
By Paul Bond, September 29, 2009
A review of Kieron Barry’s play Stockwell: The Inquest into the Death of Jean Charles de Menezes.
At the Globe Theatre in London
A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine by Trevor Griffiths
By Ann Talbot, September 18, 2009
Trevor Griffiths’ A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine brings to the stage an 18th century figure who made a significant contribution to both the American and French revolutions and whose writings ha...
Ruined: Congo is setting for prize-winning play on wartime violence against women
By Fred Mazelis, June 19, 2009
Ruined, by Lynn Nottage, is set in a Congolese brothel during the civil war that has raged for most of the past decade in that impoverished African nation. It has strengths, but also serious problems.
“England People” deeply flawed
England People Very Nice, by Richard Bean, at the National Theatre, London
By Paul Bond, May 29, 2009
Richard Bean’s latest play England People Very Nice fails both artistically and politically.
The Idea Man at the Elephant Theatre Company in Los Angeles
By Richard Adams, May 18, 2009
Kevin King’s The Idea Man, now receiving its world premiere with the Elephant Theatre Company in Hollywood, CA, leaps exuberantly into the gulf between labor and management.
Lions roaring in a well
Vince Melocchi’s Lions at the Pacific Resident Theatre
By Richard Adams, April 1, 2009
Lions is set in a neighborhood tavern in Detroit. The play treats the lives of a group of working class football fans, as their team disappoints them once again, and their economic and personal prospe...
London’s Globe Theatre to stage Trevor Griffiths’ A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine
By Ann Talbot, February 18, 2009
Academy Award winning writer Trevor Griffiths speaks about his new play A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine, which will be produced at London’s Globe Theatre this summer. It is an adaptation of his ...
Toronto the Good: It needs to push harder in some very uncomfortable places
By Jack Miller, February 18, 2009
Andrew Moodie’s new play Toronto the Good opened at Toronto’s Factory Theatre on January 31, offering audiences an intelligent, entertaining and lively evening of theatre.
“Good theatre makes you ask questions”
An interview with Khalifa Natour and Ofira Henig
By Richard Phillips, November 24, 2008
In Spitting Distance, a one-man show performed by Khalifa Natour and directed by Ofira Henig, was recently staged at the Sydney Opera House. Henig and Natour discussed the production with Richard Phil...
In Spitting Distance: war, exile and other daily realities for Palestinians
By Richard Phillips, November 24, 2008
In Spitting Distance is an emotional and at times darkly ironic exploration of the situation facing a Palestinian actor/playwright in Ramallah, Paris and Tel Aviv in 2002.
Ken Campbell (1941-2008): A unique theatrical talent
By Paul Bond, September 11, 2008
The death of the restlessly brilliant Ken Campbell, aged just 66, has robbed the theatre of one of its most inspiring talents. He was instantly recognisable: a short, bald man with increasingly unruly...
Opera for everyone
Porgy and Bess in Berlin
By Verena Nees, July 29, 2008
Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin, Deutsche Oper, Berlin, July 4 to August 1, 2008; conducted by Willie Waters; directed by Angelo Gobbato; the opera will also be performed at Den Norske Opera, Oslo,...
